Zuegma: the hip literary device that is sweeping the nation

Dec 02, 2005 10:25

more fun to use than alliteration, less common than the unreliable narrator, better named than onomatopoeia ... it is zuegma: everyone's favorite literary device. Zuegma (from the Greek for yoking) "in the most common present usage, it is applied to expressions in which a single word stands in the same grammatical relation to two or more other ( Read more... )

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chantalzola December 2 2005, 21:51:25 UTC
Great post +DDDDDD

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romulox December 3 2005, 22:17:14 UTC
i do that all the time

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wmblair December 7 2005, 16:15:24 UTC
ha-ha the onion did it. It is indeed hip to use zuegma

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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43208

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